Where there is a walking tour to be done, we’re doing it. A first sunny day in Buenos Aires, we headed out to the capital center. Buenos Aires metro Congress Back in Paris! Rodin and Hausmannian-esque architecture Eva Perón over the Avenida 9 de Julio Once Iguazú Falls was chosen as one of the New […]
Read MoreApril 13, 2016 After sleeping in one Wednesday, we motivated each other to walk around a new neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Though the day started out overcast, we had a mostly sunny walk through the port neighborhood El Caminito and then the neighborhood San Telmo. We had been walking for a few hours so we […]
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From Mendoza we hopped on a two-hour flight to Buenos Aires, certainly the more attractive option to 14 hours by bus. It was April 1st, and we settled into our home for the next two weeks. The Floralis Genérica, a flower sculpture in the United Nations Park. The 18-ton structure opens its petals in the […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2016 Chileans and Argentinians are crazy about closing car doors softly. Apparently the rest of the world slams them shut, a noise that offends even the most devout reggaetone follower. In Santiago and Buenos Aires, we’ve not only been told to close the doors more softly, taxis have stickers all over to remind […]
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Mendoza is synonymous with wine country in Argentina, most famously known for Malbec, a French grape that despite not growing well in France, flourishes in the greater Mendoza area. We took an organized tour of just one region, the UCO Valley, described by our tour company as “Mendoza’s new frontier in high-altitude wine-making.” The valley […]
Read MoreUne journée riche en dégustation de vin dans la Vallée de UCO en Argentine. Visite de trois bodegas : Atamisque, Gimenez Riili et O’Fournier. A full day of wine tasting in the UCO Valle, Argentina. Visit of three bodegas : Atamisque, Gimenez Riili and O’Fournier.
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Click here for a video of our day on the Ruta 7 Sunrise over Mendoza from our apartment We did a day tour that took us along the ruta 7, the highway to Chile. Though it is the route we took to get to Mendoza, I had been asleep the majority of the way over, […]
Read MoreUne magnifique journée sur la Ruta 7, la pittoresque route argentine vers le Chili, en compagnie de notre guide Juan Carlos et de notre amie Erin. Nous avons pu apercevoir le sommet d’Aconcagua, le plus haut pic en dehors d’Asie. A beautiful day trip on the Ruta 7, the picturesque Argentinian road to Chile, with […]
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We arrived in Santiago at 8am after twelve hours in a bus only to hurry off to a second bus, direction Argentina. The Chilean/Argentine border crossing is perched in the Andes at 3,200m (10,500ft) and looked like a huge hangar, perfect for taking shelter from the strong sun, though in winter it surely provides shelter […]
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From Santiago we bused 12 hours south to Valdivia, Chile. Valdivia is known for strong earthquakes (the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the world had its shake in 1960, measuring in at about 9.6 on the Richter scale, its epicenter near Valdivia), German food/beer (in the late 19th century, thousands of Germans arrived on Chilean […]
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